No appeal set in Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

SALT LAKE CITY -- A former street preacher sentenced to life in prison for the 2002 kidnapping and rape of Elizabeth Smart will not appeal his conviction, concluding a case that riveted the nation and focused attention on child abduction.

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